[George - the Other]

Writer JG Ballard has a number "doom and gloom" stories out there, I think written before wacko environmentalism spang up: The Drowned World, The Wind From Nowhere, etc. They'd make good fodder for the doomsday crowd.

I think it was Issac Asimov who wrote that mankind will deal with, solve and survive whatever the future may throw at us.

[Mikey_1962]

In the 1880's a study was done saying that New York City would be uninhabitable by 1925.

Why?

Because the shear numbers of live and dead horses and the waste and disease they spread would make it so.

Humans are dynamic, problems are static.

Innovation and engineering have always and always will solve our collective problems.

[JasonC]

The wind from nowhere pretty much sums it up. Wind is all it ever is, and out of nowhere is where they get it.

[TheLion]

"Writer JG Ballard has a number "doom and gloom" stories out there, I think written before wacko environmentalism spang up: The Drowned World, The Wind From Nowhere, etc. They'd make good fodder for the doomsday crowd."

I think they were good science fiction.